Q: What's happening?
Squash Australia has begun the transition from SportyHQ to revolutioniseSPORT. The move to a new platform is geared to providing a technology that helps better connect the squash community, provide deeper insights, and provide a user-friendly tool to help Squash Australia manage the sport more effectively and efficiently.
Q: What do all the systems do?
SportyHQ
- SportyHQ is a comprehensive competition and membership platform that can be used by federations and clubs to run their events such as tournaments, leagues and ladders. One of the features that SportyHQ offers is a ranking and rating system, however it is just a small part of their offering.
SquashLevels
- SquashLevels is a rating system that connects with any squash software solution, including SportyHQ and revolutioniseSPORT throughout the world. It is a a dynamic and accurate rating system that creates a Level for players representing their current playing level based on their match results.
- Through maths, behavioural modelling, match weighting, damping and automated calibration we genuinely believe we have the most accurate points based rating system in the world.
- SquashLevels do not run leagues or tournaments on our system, we just receive the results from software systems that do! We make a point of complementing the systems we connect to rather than competing with them.
- We connect best in class systems together forming an overall squash ecosystem that's focused on providing the best player experience possible.
revolutioniseSPORT
- revolutioniseSPORT is the new national registration and competition management platform that Squash Australia will be launching on 1st July 2023 to take over the features of SportyHQ. The online sports management platform will provide the Australian squash community with a fully integrated membership, competition management and club management system.
- revolutioniseSPORT doesn't have their own rating system and so is connecting to SquashLevels to power their ratings and create rankings. Squash Australia have chosen to integrate SquashLevels into revolutioniseSPORT to give players a better user experience on both platforms.
Q: Will the SquashLevels rankings be different to the SportyHQ ones?
Yes. Although both systems calculate their ratings from match results, SquashLevels' algorithm is more accurate and dynamic. Please have a look at our FAQ that compares these two rating systems.